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Interesting historical take on the earliest of debates about Mary being an eternal virgin.
But, putting the reasonings behind those debates aside for a moment provides a chance to ask the REAL question: WHY do Romanists in the Catholic Church NEED Mary to be ever a virgin?

The answer to that is simple.
It is easier for them to be saved through appeal to Mary than by obeying Scriptural admonishments.
Following Christ means just that.....finding out all about him, his life, ways, values and aligning oneself as closely as possuible to those.
But Mary worship only requires a few devotional repetitions of phrasesand acts.
Mary worship implies that Jesus lacks compassion, too, for she must intercede.

How and when (some of it quite recently) these Catholics bought into this is intersting, but not, as Frank Zappa once said, the crux of the biscuit.

Why don't you ask a Mary worshipper?
Anyway, Mary worshippers don't "follow" Mary as there's so little known about her.
All they do is use prayer to her to go around what the Scripture does say they should have been doing.

As to finding out about the Christ, that I can answer.
The Scriptures tell us to do just that, make sure of all things, hold to what is true.
Gain accurate knowlege from the Scriptures themselves, do not rely on the opinions or words of others, it tells us.
Use Jesus as an example in how to live, emulate his qualities.

The verse really is true, God really does blind the minds of the unbelievers.